Video: Stephen Colbert’s Microsoft Zune zinger

In case you missed it, Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert had some fun at the expense of Microsoft’s Zune portable media player during last night’s show. In his “Threat Down” segment, Colbert called the iPhone the No. 1 threat in America, because Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that the device includes a “kill switch.”

“I knew I should have gotten a Zune,” he said. “They can’t kill me — or do anything else.”

See the segment at the 5:40 mark in this video.

Zune godfather J Allard must be smarting over that one. But hey, at least Colbert knew what the Zune was.

Not to ruin the fun, but for anyone unclear on the actual meaning of Jobs’ remarks, the term “kill switch” refers to the ability for Apple to remotely disable an iPhone application in case the company accidentally approves a malicious application for download to the device. See this Wall Street Journal story in which Jobs confirmed the existence of the capability.

Of course, Colbert’s tongue-in-cheek misinterpretation was much funnier.